The Future Is Now
Solving the Climate Crisis with Today's Technologies
*NATIONAL BESTSELLER*
“An optimistic book that looks at existing technologies and how they can be used now to address the environmental emergency.” —Vancouver Sun
Saving our planet is not only possible—it’s possible now.
Look around you. Everything that powers up, gets warm, or moves uses energy. All we have to do is gather it up and put it to work. And that’s the good news: we already have the technology we need to capture the free energy of the sun, wind, ocean waves, and the heat of Earth itself.
The bad news isn’t news anymore. Climate change is no longer something for future generations to worry about or in far-off places like the Arctic where polar bears are affected. It’s a clear and present…
Besides being the host of Quirks & Quarks, Bob McDonald is the CBC’s science reporter and the author of two books based on the program, Wonderstruck I and Wonderstruck II. He is also the author of the memoir Measuring the Earth with a Stick: Science As I've Seen It.
The Future Is Now
Bob McDonald
The Quirks & Quarks Guide to Space
Jim Lebans, Introduction by Bob McDonald Introduced by Bob McDonald